Anxiety and how it affects recall

Anxiety and how it affects recall

Study - Loftus

Procedure

• used two experimental conditions, one with a weapon, one without
• asked to sit outside a lab where they thought they heard a genuine conversation between two people
• Condition 1 - conversation was peaceful about some office equipment, when they finished the man emerged holding a pen and with grease on his hands
• Condition 2 - conversation was more heated, heard breaking glass and a man emerged holding a knife and covered in blood
• …